Someone must have taken my $40…Has Dennis Franchione been in here?

You know your once proud football program is irrelevant when…

The coach at Temple is not interested in leaving Philadelphia to be your coach!

OK! OK! Maybe he could read the entrails and see that the golden boy is the choice and this was better PR & career-wise, but it still speaks volumes…

OBTW, wonder what RN (does anyone sense the delicious irony of those initials?) did with the purple speed boat he used to drive to work in at UDub?

#1, I’m afraid that information is going to cost you…

Two Hamiltons would actually be $20. That’s OK though, we all know Uncle Rick needs to cut corners somewhere to bribe those ultrasound technicians.

Slick Rick. Slick Rick. Slick Rick, Petey-Fresh you’re on…o-o-onnnn, o-o-onnnn……

Why is it that every time I see a picture of Ricky H that I want to replace his face with the one from the kid on the cover of Mad magazine?

Either that or the kid from the magazine is the love child of Ricky H. and Prince Charles.

He’s the handsomest ugly guy I ever did see.

Hahaha, that was great.

Me thinks that Neuheisal is the poster boy for the New Aryan Super-race…and we know Germans are hardcore….And I want my money in Euros since its worth more now…..and tell Rick for this bowl game, I’ll take 10 squares at $5 a pop, and make sure he pays out for all 4 quarters this time…..
But Slick Rick is a genius…took $6400 and turned it into millions……“Even coaches can’t bet on sports. Check out former Washington football coach, Rick Neuheisal, who lost his job by betting $6,400 on the NCAA Tournament. In this case, however, Neuheisal did end up winning a $4.7 million lawsuit, so it might seem that there are times when gambling might have an upside”…Hall of Fame Mag

Ok, I admit it, I am not up on my Rich Neuheisel background. Aside from the gambling thing, (which I do remember) what else did he do and where to get this rep?

The best part about Slick Rick’s ethical… flexibility: his law degree? From USC. Obtained while he was a grad assistant at UCLA, IIRC.

Back story: The dean went all in at RN’s weekly poker game and next thing you know, Slick Rick has the old legal sheepskin.

Jon Chait had a nice piece summing up Neuheisel’s habits here.

1. - some recruiting violations that came from his time as head coach at CU.

I’m picturing “Uncle Ricky” in a baby blue and yellow pimp suit, and it is making me giggle. He should wear that on the sidelines when USC violates him in the Rose Bowl next year.

1. - Actually, you know you are irrelevant when you are even considering Temple’s head coach.

Obviously, Golden was not getting the job unless the first 5 options turned UCLA down, but the fact that Golden was merely considered…

From the “learning how to leave well enough, alone” department:

I read Chait’s piece, and had he merely referenced the 51 recruiting violations, and Neuheisel’s indifference in the aftermath, that would have been sufficient.

However, he goes on to cite one of Neuheisel’s perfectly legal methods of contacting recruits when during no visitation periods.

Billy Donovan, in a span of one school week, flew from Gainesville to Raleigh, NC prior to 8 AM just so he could waive to Shavlick Randolph prior to Randolph entering Broughton HS for homeroom.

Donovan got this idea, in all likelihood, from mentor Rick Pitino, who did the same thing while recruiting Antoine Walker and Ron Mercer, among others.

Point being, coaches make grand gestures like these all the time, to show recruits how interested they are in them.

Granted, it would creep me out if some coach was hanging out in front of my house, but I guess a couple of national championships validate the practices in others’ eyes.

Thanks for the info boys. Now I do seem to recall that Colorado was the Miami of the west there for a while (in the police report area that is) I assume it was while Slick Rick was there or just after he left.

15 -

Billy Donovan made the Gainesville to Raleigh trip twice in one school week.

My apologies for omitting the word.

What’s creepy about middle aged men hanging around high schools…

YEEEEESHBLBLBLBBLBLB! I couldn’t even complete it, it’s too creepy. Recruiting is weird.

1. - Slick Rick was mostly recruiting-type ish. The man who followed him, Gary Barnett….well, let’s just say the rape allegations, alcohol abuse, and off-field incidents that happened on his watch make most Boulder football fans break into Tourette’s at the mention of his name.

Barnett was bad, but Bill McCartney (sic) was worse, in terms of player misconduct.

But, he gets a free pass for resigning and starting “Promise Keepers.”

Yeah, married men need to go to the Georgia Dome or wherever to be told to spend time with their family and set good examples for their children.

You want to talk about snake oil salesmen, go look at Buffalo Bill.

#19
Slick created the monster…..Gary Barnett enabled the monster….Slick Rick being the lawya type, will interepret “rules” creatively til he gets called on it…I am sure his motto is : “Never let a restraining order stand in the way of 4/5 star recruiting….he isnt saying yes, but then again he isnt saying no…..we still have a shot at a recruit up til the minute he signs on the dotted line, til then its Katie-Bar-The-Door…If the NCAA doesnt know about it, it doesnt exist….”
Just made that up, but Slick Rick is the Cigarette Smoking Man of recruiting if ya knowwhutI’msayin….
No rules, just right

1. - So-called ’moral leadership" and a national championship will buy you a lot of leeway.

1. - gotcha. Neuheisel is a throwback in that sense with his disregard for the NCAA. UCLA’s AD probably has him hanging on as a last resort, because he really doesn’t want to hire him, but can’t get anyone competent to be interested in his cheap ass program.

#18: You think recruitings weird? What’s creepier are those who track the recruiting— the messageboards where grown men with no actual ties to the athletic program obsess over the stats of seventeen year olds and track their every statement of interest and start new topics how they heard from their friend’s cousin’s neighbor who goes to school with Recruit X’s girlfriend that he’s leaning towards State University Y instead of State University P.

Lots of amusement to be had when class is slow to read their recruiting fever dreams, but also a little creepy.

David Cross does a great bit on the Promise Keepers.

Wishful Thinking Dept:

As a USC fan, I hope ucla hires Nuheisel NOW.

Nuhistrudel will get whacked by Pete Carroll in every way (recruiting, coaching and bloviating to the press) Every interview with Newshisel will include the obligatory question about NCAA cheatin’ and lawsuits.

Neustashless is to Carroll, like no-butt Paris Hilton is to an EDSBS bunda babe.

I have to agree with SKLM that slick rich being hired by UCLA would make a lot of USC fans very happy. His pattern at both Colorado and Washington was to start strong with the players who were there and then slide into mediocrity in his 3rd year (sort of like a skinny Charlie Weis). And both programs were a wasteland after he was fired.

A bonus is that UCLA will burn their newly rebuilt recruiting ties to urban LA by passing over Walker, who is unlikely to stay. UCLA is a school that barely has any black students in the last few incoming classes. The have a real image problem in the black community and any perceived mistreatment of Walker is only going to exacerbate that.

On the other hand, if UCLA does end up hiring Walker then we get the entertainment of seeing the monkeys at Bruins Nation/DD go absolutely bonkers.

As the father of two unborn fetuses, I can assure you that we’d make sure they signed with Pete before Rick, because Dad would like to hang at the Grotto.

Screw the forty bucks, Dude. But how ’bout filling out my March Madness brackets?

If Skinny Rick does land the job, I think that the key to recruiting effectively in South Central is just sitting on Mama’s plastic slip covered couch and strumming the old six string. Not many people know this but the Kingston Trio is still huge in the ’hood.

But seriously folks, UCLA needs anutha brutha, and Ty Willingham is lookin’ around. His buyout is basically this…you offer Ty a job, and Washington gives you $3 Million. Plus, a couple more three and outs and Mr. Willie can afford to just play golf all fucking day long, every day for a real long time.